Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:25:11PM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote:
>> This seems to be quite common code (from one of my packages (cvsd), >> don't know what the original source for this code was): >> m=sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); >> for (i=0;i<m;i++) >> close(i); >> There are hurd packages for this package so that should also work. > I wouldn't be so quick to assume that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) does anything > useful on Hurd at runtime. Plus, I suppose making 65,000 pointless system calls during the startup of a daemon (not a particularly surprising value for the limit on open file descriptors) isn't really that big of a deal, but it feels kind of "ugh" to me. If every daemon does that, I wonder if it would have a noticable impact on startup speed. Probably not, since in Linux system calls are pretty fast, but that's a large multiplicative factor. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
